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WURK Elwood Sold To EMF

People need to research just a little to make sure a community can support a station. Just
finding an open frequency does not qualify as do diligence. This can be a very risky business.

Cass County gained one new frequency (103.7 ) in Docket 80-90. No one went for LPFM there.

There are small towns in Southern Indiana where there are few people and many caves. The dial
is clogged.
 
Flying-Dutchman said:
There are small towns in Southern Indiana where there are few people and many caves. The dial
is clogged.
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what is it clogged with? k-love translators? :p

i really wish the FCC would crack down on translators. put ownership caps back in. and make them stern say... cant own any more then 3AM and 3FM in the whole USA. with the exception a current AM if moved to FM and shutting down there AM signal the new FM will be counted as AM.

keep the non-comms in the NCE band. if your in the commercial band then you muse be commercial (no non-comms between 92.1-107.9 period) and even at least 50% of your content MUST come from your local studio and your studio MUST be in your COL)

LPFM must present 90% local content meaning 90% of the broadcast must come from there COL. (say bye to the LPFMs running 24/7 sat feeds)
 
Stations abandoned their City Of License because they smelled more money in larger communities.
In most cases this was a big loss to the town. But, some frequencies were allotted to towns that
never could have supported a full power station.

We would all love to see stations be live and local. But, dog gone, it is about money. There
must be funds to pay people and taxes on their employment. Many stations only have the choice
of the bird, automation, or sign off.

Of course there is one more choice. One can work for free like I do and be on duty 24 hours a day.
 
Where are you going to even locate studios in Battle Ground or Royal Center, Indiana? There is no way a full power station in either city could make a living broadcasting only to that community. I fail to see how the "public" is better served if a broadcasting company leases three office suites in three different suburbs. I think realistically we have to understand that populations have shifted and everything has not remained static since the allocation table was put together in the 1940s.

Like I've said on this board before, if you are going to have "live and local" requirments you have to spell them out; for example, how much does a station have to have a DJ talking and what is he or she required to say? How much do you bet if all the live and local proponents got what they say they want, all they'd be doing is saying how all these jocks "sucked"?.
 
A couple fine examples. Now what about 101.9 in Brownsburg. It also covered more than 1,000,000
people in Indianapolis. Was I supossed to ignore all those potential listeners. It was easy to make
money with all that population and stay afloat.

I always did put my studios in my City Of License because my listeners did not listen because of
where my studio was located. And, it was fun to put my towns on the radar. A radio station can bring
pride to a community.
 
Radio band is way to crowded, could they change the translators so there directional?
This might reduce the crowed band some?

It would be better if we had less stations packed into populated areas. The only shortage I see we have is trying to cover all formats of music. Some existing stations find it hard to survive, little AM stations have a rough time.

If someone wants more stations or a certain station invest into a better antenna.

Back in the day when I wanted to hear AM stations better in the car, I nearly doubled the length of the antenna and they came in much better, and more stations were available.

Don't know if that would help know days, I notice there is a lot of interference on WLS and WHAS.
 
Flying-Dutchman said:
Hi Bob,
There are towns that need an FM radio station that don't have one. But, those towns
aren't near here. Only three more Class A's coming to Columbus.
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I'll buy that assessment Bruce. But when I moved to Columbus in 1977, there was a 3000 watt FM, a 20,000 watt FM and a 500 watt AM daytimer...a comfy number of signals for a town of 30,000 folks. Now look at it...and as you pointed out, still more are on the way. And to carry it back another 15 years, when I grew up in Cincy, nobody listened to FM and there were 5 local AM's to fill the 5 buttons on dad's Buick car radio....550, 700, 1230, 1360 & 1530...and no one was griping about there not being enough stations to listen to. How in the name of heavens did we get from there to here??? There had to have been an ideal point somewhere between 1962 & 2009.
 
I don't mind the existence of the stations ... I just wish they were more honest with making the City of License the city that they intend to serve. The shifts last year in Indianapolis are good examples of this. Move a station from one "City" to another "City" and get credit for providing "first" service to that second city. Sounds good ... this city without it's own radio station now has one.

Then look at the physical move - the tower was already far from the first "City", to the south of the second "City". While moving the COL the licensee also moves the tower location FURTHER AWAY from the new City of License. Yep, that is a good way to serve the named city.

The COL was irrelevant ... the studios stayed in the same building and the focus of that station remained the same: Indianapolis. But the FCC and the stations perpetuate the lie that the stations provided "first service" or any unique service to the COLs.

The FCC needs to scrap the "first service" credit unless a station truly provides unique service to the named community. Approve the deals if they want, just do it without the accepted deceptions.
 
Maybe next year, EMF will work on giving people a Spanish version of K Love on WURK...


Every thing will get better for us...
 
"First aural service to West Podunk" has been a joke for decades. Audiences don't even listen based on "oh, it's the Danville station" anymore. I don't see any "public service" advantage for leasing three office suites instead of one. Who goes to radio stations for any reason other than picking up prizes?

As far as K-Love, I know many of their listeners over in Ohio, and they could are fully aware that there's no DJ sitting in a chair in Troy, Ohio and they do not care. In fact, they LIKE the fact that they can hear the very same station when they travel. Sucks for us, but they aren't jonesin for a local DJ.
 
gr8oldies said:
"First aural service to West Podunk" has been a joke for decades. Audiences don't even listen based on "oh, it's the Danville station" anymore. I don't see any "public service" advantage for leasing three office suites instead of one. Who goes to radio stations for any reason other than picking up prizes?

As far as K-Love, I know many of their listeners over in Ohio, and they could are fully aware that there's no DJ sitting in a chair in Troy, Ohio and they do not care. In fact, they LIKE the fact that they can hear the very same station when they travel. Sucks for us, but they aren't jonesin for a local DJ.
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I met someone totally unrelated to radio and we started talking. Mid Age Demo of K Love. She knows the K Love studios are in California. She says she prefers local stations better, but, she still listens. She says she tunes out any pledge drive because it is annoying. Prefers to give to her local church. With what they raise in cash not everyone shares this opinion.

FCC doesn't give a "credit" for first aural service but has a preference for first service in moves to new cities.
 
you had to say it...
 
Let me clarify ...
Good local radio beats good non-local radio beats bad local radio beats bad non-local radio.

The pecking order is more than good vs local.

Local stations have the ability to reach their listeners more effectively than non-locals ... but they can throw away that advantage in many ways. Just because the content is non-local and heard on a dozen stations (or even hundreds) doesn't make the content good (as some people would believe).
 
...and then there was that white trash dumpster (ironically located next door to an automotove junkyard) called W-bump.

An outlet for ultra-right wing conspiracy theorists and holocaust denialists that preceeded Rush, O'Reilly and the other "arch conservatives" which are no more than Joe Pyne redux.

Serves them right to be a thing of the past.

At this point of the game. K-LOVE is better then what 101.7 used to be decades ago...Still, a WERK simulcast was far better than the raging lunatics broadcasting their gospel of hate to the other local raging lunatics with an IQ that suggests one that believes the National Enquirer and All Star Championship rasslin' was gospel truth.
 
Wow - a WBMP reference! Kudos to you Limp73, for having the historicals on this station. AND, ultra-right wing - that's an understatement. I've stood off the side of the road on SR 28 that runs through Elwood, and watched a pick up truck drive by with four white-hooded gentlemen standing in the back bed, in broad daylight [though it's been a few years ago].
The station actually doesn't sound bad [as Oldies] - programming you would think could have been successful in an older Indiana community like this. However, you're not going to sell a dime of advertising in Elwood [unless you were born there and a member in good standing] and Elwood has little in common with Muncie, where the programming orginates so there's no traction there.
An EMF repeater here might actually be the BEST use of this frequency - no one trying to do the impossible locally, and God-fearing programming appeal. Or, maybe just turn out the lights.
 
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